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Image: Summary: What is human trafficking? Well, it is modern day slavery in which men, women and especially children are exploited through force, fraud, and threatening. It occurs around the world, including right here in the USA. Victims are trapped, vulnerable and unable to take action without risking their own lives. World of Children is “unlocking the future for vulnerable children by funding and elevating the most effective changemakers for children worldwide.” World of Children’s Honorees are working to rescue and rehabilitate victims of child trafficking so that they are safe, supported, and have the opportunity to rebuild. This charity has been around for 9 years and they have raised a lot of money. According to World of Children Charities, they have made a total income of $1,916,334, from public funds, restricted and unrestricted boards of gifts, and in-kind donations. “Contributions from our Board of Governors pays for 100% of general and administrative costs and...

              De-extinction in the process of "resurrecting" species that have previously died off through cloning, selective breeding, and DNA splicing. Scientists are working to rack in an immense amount of money to perform de-extinction on animals like the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon. The science behind de-extinction is groundbreaking, but with environmental conditions depleting we should focus that money towards preserving species that are still alive today.      Scientists cannot perfectly predict how each and every animal that is resurrected will act. Species that are de-extinct have the complete possibility of being the top predator and wiping out other species, or they could overpopulate because other species don’t have the system to consume it. As well as that, if scientists can de-extinct species humans will care less and less about the environment and continue to destroy it because if an animal dies we can j...

Image: https://ww2.kqed.org/education/2017/04/12/should-we-bring-back-extinct-species/ Summary: De-extinction in the process of "resurrecting" species that have previously died off through cloning, selective breeding, and DNA splicing. Scientists are working to rack in an immense amount of money to perform de-extinction on animals like the woolly mammoth. They claim the woolly mammoth would actually be helping the tundra, due to the fact that ice is melting and the soil contains carbon which would release if more ice melts. The woolly mammoth would “punch down the snow in the winter time allowing cold air to come in and in the summertime they would knock down trees which are very absorbent and release the grasses,” said Steph Yin in  We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. Is It Worth the Cost?.  Along with the wooly mammoth, many scientists are considering the resurrection of the passenger pigeon. This particular pigeon allowed regeneration in certain forests by fra...

Summary:  A carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere by a particular person or in this case company. Many of the items we currently use were made out of the continent or at least out of the country. You know that shirt that you love to wear, chances are it was made halfway around the world. Imagine how much carbon would be emitted just to make that shirt. It would have to be transported from one place to another a multitude of times before it reaches you and that is just one thing you own. Worst of all, if it was made out of the continent it was most likely shipped through an airplane which produces the most amount of CO2 compared to trains, trucks and cargo ships. As a company, you can see that buying locally and in bulk will not only help our air quality but can save some money. S&EP-Using Models: I developed and used models when I created a map to represent the journey made by fortune cookies. By this, I mean the map showed how different comp...

Summary:  Fluxx is a complex game in which the goals are rules are always changing. While creating my very own Fluxx deck my partner and I set out to use this platform to educate others about the Water Cycle. Some main concepts of we included were accumulation, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, etc. Accumulation is when water gathers in large bodies such as lakes, seas, and oceans. We should this through a goal in which you needed lake and rain because the rainwater accumulated into the lake. Precipitation is when water drops onto the earth in ways like snow, sleet, hail, and rain. We incorporated this into our Fluxx deck by having the goal of 'Package Arrived' which required hail and atmosphere because hail precipitated atmospheric water to earth. When liquid water vaporizes into a gas is known as evaporation and the goal that explained this was 'Love is in the air.' In this goal, the connection was water vapor was in the atmosph...

Question:  All of the following are reasonable reasons that explain why is the fossil record incomplete, EXCEPT.... Wrong Answer: Scavengers and decomposers eat dead organisms too quickly. Correct Answer: Organisms that are alive today cannot become fossils. Reasoning: The correct answer is, 'Organisms that are alive today cannot become fossils' because organisms that are alive today can be fossils. This is so because certain organisms that exist today have roamed the Earth for many, many years giving them time to die and create fossils. Just because an organism is currently in existence doesn't mean that one of these individuals couldn't have become a fossil. 

Image: Summary:  The water cycle is the process in which water travels through various steps such as accumulation, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, etc. Accumulation is when water gathers in large bodies such as lakes, seas, and oceans. Condensation is when water vapor "condenses" into the liquid form of water.  Condensing water forms clouds in the sky.  The so-called ingredients for clouds include humidity, condensation and sudden change in air pressure.  When liquid water vaporizes into a gas is known as evaporation.  Water vaporizes from the surfaces of oceans and lakes or from the surface of the land.  Precipitation is when water drops onto the earth in ways like snow, sleet, hail, and rain. A subsurface runoff is when a form of water flows underground into sewers or drains, whereas a surface runoff is when water flows into rivers and streams located on the surface. Transpiration is when plants absorb water through its roots...